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What happened Feb 8 2021?
« on: July 25, 2023, 03:09:43 PM »
Most Online Ever: 4893 (February 08, 2021, 06:20:54 PM)

It's always been gnawing at my curiosity

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Re: What happened Feb 8 2021?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2023, 03:16:05 PM »
What happened on February 8, 2021 that caused  4,893 people to visit DDF?

Amazon/Walmart war

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Re: What happened Feb 8 2021?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2023, 06:53:37 PM »
https://theweek.com/10things/965553/10-things-need-know-today-february-8-2021?amp
in order of rising importance I guess that this caused the DDF spike "Former Secretary of State George Shultz dies at 100"

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Re: What happened Feb 8 2021?
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2024, 09:21:25 AM »
https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?action=stats

note that it is about 4000* more then all surrounding dates. i think this might be a bit flip  (cosmic or otherwise)

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210505103N/abstract
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors

*(4096 for the geeks here)